Alice Adams (novel)
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Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was adapted for film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. The na
First edition (1921)
Fred MacMurray and Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams (1935)
Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Ficti
Alice Adams (novel)
…Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was adapted for film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. The…
Tarkington in 1922
Cover page for Penrod, depicting Penrod Schofield and his dog Duke (1914)
Newton Booth Tarkington by 19th-20th century artist John White Alexander
Tarkington is interred in the Tarkington-Jameson mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.